$17 for Visit for Four to DuPage Children's Museum (Up to $38 Value)

Downtown Naperville

97% of 3,988 customers recommend

In a Nutshell

Family-friendly museum filled with hands-on exhibits on how familiar objects are made, electricity, and other topics that engage young minds

The Fine Print

Promotional value expires May 1, 2013. Amount paid never expires.Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Must use promotional value in 1 visit. Not valid for special events, field trips, or memberships. Not valid 11/21-11/23, 12/26-12/31, 1/21/13, 2/18/13, or 3/23/13-3/31/13.Merchant is solely responsible to purchasers for the care and quality of the advertised goods and services.

DuPage Children's Museum

Children's museums keep kids out of regular museums, where they could knock over antiquities or see a bathing lady for the first time. Use your outdoor voice indoors with this Groupon.

$17 for Admission for Four (Up to $38 Value)

Families can spend the day exploring the museum's three floors of exhibits, including interactive displays about trains and how electricity works as well as a brand new How People Make Things exhibit, open October 27, 2012 through January 27, 2013.

DuPage Children's Museum

In 1987, Louise Beem and Dorothy Carpenter were early-childhood-education specialists. Based on their combined experience—gained from teaching preschool, founding the College of DuPage's early-childhood-education program, and being grandmothers—the two friends felt that traditional methods of teaching youngsters were less than optimal at the time. Their brainchild, the DuPage Children's Museum, began that same year. The pair designed the museum's colorful exhibits to incorporate interactive and open-ended elements, which they believed more closely matched the way kids learn and naturally process information, a discovery they say has now been corroborated by findings in neuroscience research.

In that vein, the three-story museum engages young neurons with interactive art, math, and science-themed attractions. Giving little hands the chance to explore, the AWEsome Electricity exhibit bridges the gap between the electric-powered gadgets and lights families use every day to where all that nonbreakfast-based energy comes from. Kids learn how electricity gets from one place to another and what its basic units are while at play in the museum's signature hands-on spaces. Elsewhere, the Young Explorers exhibit is designed for children aged 2 and under, who develop math skills by learning concepts such as sorting and patterning and express their creativity by experimenting with color and light.